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Gov. Doug Ducey and his wealthy special interest pals were absolutely gleeful last week when the voter-approved education initiative known as the Invest in Education Act was overturned.
Ducey & Co. worked overtime to ensure that nearly $900 million in additional education dollars will never reach our classrooms and that our tragic underfunding of special education programs, our bottom-of-the-barrel per-pupil funding, and our teacher shortage crisis continue.
But it’s important for Arizonans to understand that schoolchildren and teachers are not the only ones adversely affected by this decision.
Our state constitution and the right of all Arizona citizens to create policy via the ballot has been greatly diminished, as well.